tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4219088629774508908..comments2017-10-16T17:34:50.170-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Big Cup maker — WEDNESDAY, Sep. 9 2009 — Colossus locale / Art show that might feature Fish Magic / Unmerciful Athenian lawgiverRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31633569969565419672009-10-14T18:47:56.626-04:002009-10-14T18:47:56.626-04:004D: Big Cup maker (Reese&#39;s) — really would hav...4D: Big Cup maker (Reese&#39;s) — really would have liked a bra manufacturer here.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liinxSNHfeo" rel="nofollow">What Rex was thinking</a><br /><br />BISCUITS &amp; GRAVYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67894709840680472722009-10-14T16:57:36.424-04:002009-10-14T16:57:36.424-04:004D: Big Cup maker (Reese&#39;s)
I misread the clu...4D: Big Cup maker (Reese&#39;s)<br /><br />I misread the clue I thought it said Big Gulp maker. I was thinking how can I get 7/11 to fit in the grid.<br /><br />Rex was thinking about womens undergarments. I wonder how playtex would have fit in the grid?<br /><br />RSDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52235760497479179232009-10-14T14:45:29.189-04:002009-10-14T14:45:29.189-04:00Couldn&#39;t let go of AISLE for 32D. Finally came...Couldn&#39;t let go of AISLE for 32D. Finally came to terms with the fact that I was wrong when I got IHEARD and DONT...<br /><br />Overall, a challenging puzzle for me. But I&#39;m relatively new, so, that&#39;s a good thing. Gotta keep learning! MOSHE is (kinda) new to me, so was MSGR (Monsignor, really?) and ADA (Nabokov novel). EUGENE was a huge gimme being in OR, and I just visited RHODES this spring. Elli Beach was amazing (if you enjoy suntanning, drinking and lots of European debauchery :)).Whitneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12427378278653572523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90212534866007122652009-09-10T00:13:23.050-04:002009-09-10T00:13:23.050-04:00a great struggle! Thanks.
loved many of the clues...a great struggle! Thanks.<br /><br />loved many of the clues: Evian water, Jack Horner, IHEARD, Buffer areas, Fish Magic, recovered from, beats by a hair, find innocent, God wrought sender, cote call, go like heck, RoyGBiv, take 3 of 3, Jeanne d&#39;Arc et al, ballot marker, what the?<br /><br />Laura: a buffer is a DeMilitarized Zone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-69289279622505578402009-09-10T00:13:21.954-04:002009-09-10T00:13:21.954-04:00a great struggle! Thanks.
loved many of the clues...a great struggle! Thanks.<br /><br />loved many of the clues: Evian water, Jack Horner, IHEARD, Buffer areas, Fish Magic, recovered from, beats by a hair, find innocent, God wrought sender, cote call, go like heck, RoyGBiv, take 3 of 3, Jeanne d&#39;Arc et al, ballot marker, what the?<br /><br />Laura: a buffer is a DeMilitarized Zone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16323478039509860012009-09-09T23:15:39.365-04:002009-09-09T23:15:39.365-04:00This week&#39;s relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week&#39;s relative difficulty ratings. See my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&amp;postID=3588389571383499624&amp;isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation. In a nutshell, the higher the ratio, the higher this week&#39;s median solve time is relative to the average for the corresponding day of the week.<br /><br />All solvers (this week&#39;s median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 6:54, 6:55, 1.00, 56%, Medium<br />Tue 7:31, 8:25, 0.89, 20%, Easy-Medium<br />Wed 11:38, 12:15, 0.95, 38%, Easy-Medium<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:51, 3:41, 1.05, 68%, Medium-Challenging<br />Tue 4:12, 4:22, 0.96, 46%, Medium<br />Wed 5:43, 5:59, 0.95, 42%, Medium<br /><br />Unlike yesterday, the midday disparity between the percentile for all solvers and that for the top 100 pretty much disappeared by the end of the day.<br /><br />@PIX ... you&#39;re quite welcome and thanks for the thanks.<br /><br />@Laura ... DMZ = De-Militarized Zone ... some of that come immediately to my mind are the one that still separates the two Koreas, one in Vietnam and several between Israel and various neighbors.sanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78972367527235969542009-09-09T23:09:18.864-04:002009-09-09T23:09:18.864-04:00Sweet mother of Mary, I had so many problems with ...Sweet mother of Mary, I had so many problems with this puzzle today, I&#39;m actually fuming!!!<br />Rex, my friend, how can you give this an easy-medium? I&#39;m a regular Times crossword solver, and this definitely left me stumped. Like some others have said, waaaaaaaay to many abbreviations, and can someone just kill the use of &quot;Mid-century year&quot;? Enough!<br />I&#39;m 27 years old, and I like to think I know more than most when it comes to music and art, but Tennessee Ernie? And KleeExhibit?<br />Yipes. Lastly, what does DMZS stand for, anyway? Someone might have said so, but I scanned through 75 previous comments, so. <br />Ok, and one more: &quot;BeStirred&quot; (11D)? Come on! It sounds like the name of an unusual bug!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13020077697875165149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79855185187097935732009-09-09T22:47:08.840-04:002009-09-09T22:47:08.840-04:00Hey I have one left -- Here&#39;s the Libertines (...Hey I have one left -- Here&#39;s the Libertines (cut and paste necessary):<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZrWuw3ZAXIStanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02681342234536407419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70755734896071294102009-09-09T22:27:02.093-04:002009-09-09T22:27:02.093-04:00I threw in ORANGE for INDIGO: both part of Roy G. ...I threw in ORANGE for INDIGO: both part of Roy G. Biv, both having six letters, and both correctly crossing EUGENE, which was already filled in. That and having MOSES instead of MORSE screwed me up for a little while.<br /><br />I agree that the puzzles have been a bit lame lately - except for this Saturday&#39;s. That one was brilliant. Nice to see not all constructors need to fill their puzzles with abbreviations. (Saturday&#39;s had only two, if you can even count MTM - what the production company was actually called - as one.) I&#39;m too tired to count all the abbreviations in today&#39;s puzzle. Yawn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30736203970318131432009-09-09T21:43:42.594-04:002009-09-09T21:43:42.594-04:00@poc: Very good answer(s)! I just had no clue, and...@poc: Very good answer(s)! I just had no clue, and was curious...Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02681342234536407419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90326039264462127732009-09-09T20:11:08.952-04:002009-09-09T20:11:08.952-04:00love the big cup = bra manufacturer idea. My favou...love the big cup = bra manufacturer idea. My favourite, Wacoal, would be awesome puzzle fodder.janienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36003484733182119432009-09-09T20:01:48.908-04:002009-09-09T20:01:48.908-04:00@poc thanx hope I remember all that@poc thanx hope I remember all thatchefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24615041468567771572009-09-09T19:50:17.262-04:002009-09-09T19:50:17.262-04:00@sanfranman59: I for one truly appreciate you post...@sanfranman59: I for one truly appreciate you posting the daily difficulty scores...I enjoy Rex&#39;s evaluation also but that is one man&#39;s very subjective opinion...the times you post represent a much larger group and I find them very useful in reinforcing or contradicting-as the case may be-my opinion of the puzzle. Thanks for the posts.PIXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58633570410387292282009-09-09T19:02:47.708-04:002009-09-09T19:02:47.708-04:00It is wonderful!!!!
(Baby killdeer look like marsh...It is wonderful!!!!<br />(Baby killdeer look like marshmallows on sticks.)<br /><br />And that&#39;s why Seth is cool! ;)<br /><br />Out at third.fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23504140292113405452009-09-09T18:50:40.166-04:002009-09-09T18:50:40.166-04:00@chefbea: not for nothing am I a retired professor...@chefbea: not for nothing am I a retired professor (but of computing, not mathematics), so despite your exhortations I cannot resist using up my third and last comment to explain what a conic is:<br /><br />Image a cone. Now imagine a flat plane that intersects the cone (cuts it, if you will). All the possible shapes of the curve where the plane cuts the cone are called conics. Depending on the angle of the plane, some are closed (circle, ellipse) and others open (parabola, hyperbola). There&#39;s even the special case of the plane cutting down vertically through the apex of the cone, giving two intersecting straight lines. Or the case where the plane just touches the apex of the cone without intersecting it, giving a single point. The conic equation describes all of these cases in one expression.<br /><br />That&#39;s why math is cool :-)pochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08861361305246858918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36651416271757583422009-09-09T18:24:57.230-04:002009-09-09T18:24:57.230-04:00Actually, it was SHA LA LA in the puzzle. Why not ...Actually, it was SHA LA LA in the puzzle. Why not just use Donna? This is a velvet mite I found in Uganda. To me, it looks like a raspberry with legs.SethGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753036404140901368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36738747000773572722009-09-09T18:02:25.898-04:002009-09-09T18:02:25.898-04:00@Seth: didn&#39;t know that about Rhode Island. I ...@Seth: didn&#39;t know that about Rhode Island. I did hear that Martha&#39;s Vineyard used to be &quot;Martha&#39;s Wijngaard&quot;, after a Dutch captain&#39;s daughter.<br /><br />@Andrea, thanks for another heads-up! I tend to like the CrossSynergy<br />most days. First to Brendan&#39;s.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37400069164218320752009-09-09T17:43:29.981-04:002009-09-09T17:43:29.981-04:00By coincidence, in Patrick Blindauer&#39;s super c...By coincidence, in Patrick Blindauer&#39;s super clever CrossSynergy puzzle today, the clue for 39A is &quot;EEE, e.g.&quot;<br /><br />SO those who feel our summer of discontent can bop over to BEQ and CS today and be all happy!<br /><br />(I do think tho, INGENERAL that five super long entrieees today PLUS EEE crossing SEX has got to give you something to like!)<br /><br />Bleedover: AMAJ<br />WOW!<br /><br />@Ruth<br />Wouldn&#39;t that be scary for your friend if that were NOT true??? ;)andrea roselle michaelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62764023757030888262009-09-09T17:10:56.242-04:002009-09-09T17:10:56.242-04:00I identified the theme in the Midlands where EEE c...I identified the theme in the Midlands where EEE crossed two theme entries. It took me a while to puzzle out the beginning of 40A. These tired old eyes had a problem sorting out all the EEEs.<br /><br />When we visited my grandmother when I was a child, she had a metal rack of LPs that used to be all the vogue for displaying albums covers and she sure loved her some Tennessee Ernie Ford, as Rex would say, and I remember the album containing &quot;16 Tons&quot; was prominently displayed. Does anyone remember those racks that ran from floor to ceiling using springs?edith bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89386908175629038592009-09-09T17:08:22.764-04:002009-09-09T17:08:22.764-04:00@Seth, forget the coefficients - WHAT is that a pi...@Seth, forget the coefficients - WHAT is that a picture of? Cute little bugger! Are you going to tell me he&#39;s a bedbug or jock-crab or something magnified?<br /><br />Looks crabby!<br /><br />When you posted Donna Shalala, weren&#39;t we talking about something similar to her last name in the puzzle? Shanana? Irish walking sticks?<br /><br />Is he your avatar today because of his beautiful color? (that&#39;s why I assume he&#39;s male ;)fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61233761580454158412009-09-09T17:04:22.550-04:002009-09-09T17:04:22.550-04:00Did the puzzle, came to the blog, saw word of the ...Did the puzzle, came to the blog, saw word of the day, said, &quot;Huh, Roselle--is that in there?&quot; Never even saw it since it all fell with the crosses. Hard to get upset over that.<br />My daughter&#39;s friend is named Roselle but is probably less well known even than Roselle Park.Ruthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9580536687521248552009-09-09T16:21:08.448-04:002009-09-09T16:21:08.448-04:00This may have been an &quot;easy&quot; puzzle for ...This may have been an &quot;easy&quot; puzzle for long-time solvers. For me it was chock-full of &quot;know it or you don&#39;t&quot; answers. Klee? Ewers? Moshe? Draco? Give me a break. Not to mention the too-numerous-to-mention three-letter abbreviations. I&#39;m sure for crossword buffs those come up all the time, but for a casual solver, blech. I got it eventually, but found it tiresome and not very enjoyable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81625725671082000322009-09-09T16:11:23.567-04:002009-09-09T16:11:23.567-04:00@beq
Your puzzle is much better than today&#39;s ...@beq<br /><br />Your puzzle is much better than today&#39;s NY Times! Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57568599322597084012009-09-09T15:57:41.797-04:002009-09-09T15:57:41.797-04:00chefbea, they get pretty close.
The dogs are name...chefbea, they get pretty <a href="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm168340.jpg" rel="nofollow">close</a>.<br /><br />The dogs are named after the country. The country is named after the guy. The college is named after another guy. The state is named after the color. <br /><br />I am named after my my grandpa Sam. I am both ept and ert. I do not rant, do not memorize conical matrices of coefficients, and will not remember when the standard time is.SethGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753036404140901368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85536243043869411862009-09-09T15:57:41.225-04:002009-09-09T15:57:41.225-04:00@Anne
what you said...e-x-a-c-t-l-y
@Orange/Ulric...@Anne<br />what you said...e-x-a-c-t-l-y<br /><br />@Orange/Ulrich<br />That really gives me something to think about...<br /><br />@Kumar<br />Are you kidding? Is that really the mnemonic???<br /><br />@Plantie Bea<br />Count me in as a TREEHUGGER I&#39;ve beenn in SF too long! <br /><br />I&#39;m enjoying learning things like that @POC is from Ireland, @Purple guy is a vet...<br />If it helps, I STILL give Afish shit for having ETHNICCLEANSING in one of his puzzles (it came THIIIIS close being put into ours!)<br /><br />And since it&#39;s sort of a repeat theme, on sort of a repeat date, I will repeat my story that my friend Paul Clay (whom some of you met at the LA tournament) divides folks into two categories...<br />ones who say &quot;Like the artist?&quot; and ones who...don&#39;t.<br /><br />oh, @Rex<br />Loved the art work on the blog today and I half-expected a video of Xhibit...or whatever that rapper&#39;s name is...andrea 999 michaelsnoreply@blogger.com